{"id":52875,"date":"2022-09-27T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52875"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:30:31","slug":"n-korea-orders-20-days-worth-of-food-be-provided-to-pyongyangites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-korea-orders-20-days-worth-of-food-be-provided-to-pyongyangites\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea orders 20 days&#8217; worth of food be provided to Pyongyangites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities recently ordered that Pyongyang residents be provided with 20 days&#8217; worth of food ahead of the Party Foundation Day holiday on Oct. 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the authorities running into difficulty providing food even to Pyongyang since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea appears to have ordered a provision of food ahead of the state holiday to earn good will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source on Monday, Pyongyang\u2019s party committee and people\u2019s committee ordered the provision of 20 days&#8217; worth of food to the city\u2019s residents on Sept. 17 to mark the upcoming Party Foundation Day holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next day, Pyongyang\u2019s party committee convened an emergency meeting with the heads of district and county-level organizations to discuss how to acquire the food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the meeting, the city\u2019s chief party secretary told leading officials from district and county people\u2019s committees and local workplaces that they \u201cshouldn\u2019t just sit at their desks, but lead by example by directly heading to their assigned collective farms to secure food.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said Pyongyang\u2019s people\u2019s committee provided five day\u2019s worth of food on four occasions in May and June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHowever, this time they are providing 20 days\u2019 worth of food all at once,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordinary people have suffered woeful food shortages because North Korea distributes food imported through the port of Nampo to \u201cimportant\u201d places such as party, security and police institutions in Pyongyang. Everyone else gets whatever remains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has designated specific farms in the two Hwanghae and two Pyongan provinces as bases to provide food to Pyongyang residents. However, with typhoons and torrential rains causing so much crop damage this year, providing food to Pyongyang residents this autumn may prove difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said Pyongyang\u2019s municipal authorities are scrambling to secure food to soothe sentiment in the capital ahead of the Party Foundation Day holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, since the emergency meeting on Sept. 17, leading officials with the city\u2019s district and county people\u2019s committees have reportedly rushed to provincial areas to secure food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this year\u2019s harvest looking grim, the officials plan to lodge on-site, sending rice, corn and other grains to Pyongyang as soon as farmers finish threshing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said realistically speaking, it would not be easy to provide normal rations even to residents of Pyongyang beyond the one or two months of the harvest season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn fact, [the authorities] are trying to stop public unrest by providing Pyongyang residents with food for Party Foundation Day, which coincides with autumn, when they can secure the most amount of grain,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source also said that people in the provinces are unhappy about the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cProvincial residents are complaining that the army or Pyongyang take everything they farm for the year, and they can\u2019t get even their share,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220926-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean authorities recently ordered that Pyongyang residents be provided with 20 days&#8217; worth of food ahead of the Party Foundation Day holiday on Oct. 10. 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